Someone can only be vampiric if you allow it.

A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I'm ashamed of and looking them right in the eye.

You become more animalistic when you don't know what's coming next - you have to be on guard, but at the same time you're also more receptive.

There is also a particular frustration that I have with language. It's so clumsy. And the reason I'm feeling that is more because on your breathing and your intonation than the actual words.

I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love songs, I would use genderless pronouns, like "dear" and "darling" - like some kind of granny!

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

I try to have things change before I get bored, and I figure other people might enjoy that too; I try not to let anything repeat for long enough that you can get used to it.

I do love voices so much that I will use them and manipulate them. The presence of a human voice in a piece of music is really exciting, even if it's just someone's breathing.

With song titles, I try to keep a healthy sense of humor while saying something at the same time.

When you actually make a new friend, and you make music and laugh really hard together, that can give you a lot of confidence and nourishment and encouragement.

Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.

Respect everyone who crosses your path, even if you feel they don't deserve it.

Josh and I started out so easy, so fun, and now we're like strangers. I'll never have that person back, who I knew better than anyone and who knew me so well.

and while he did all the actual dancing, I remember whirling around and around the porch those hot summer days so long ago and never wanting to stop.

I beseech you, one and all, to add your prayers to mine to the end that war and bloodshed cease, and that love, friendship, peace and unity reign in the world.

If you laugh a lot, when you get older your wrinkles will be in the right places.

It cannot be that there is a high appreciation of Jesus and a totally silent tongue about him

There is nothing but eternity. Eternity has always been and will always be.

Yes, we get death threats every week... from the Muslims.

The East and the West in the spring of the world shall blend / As a man and a woman that plight / Their troth in the warm spring night.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.